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Journaling Forward: Inspired by Simple Magics
October 12, 2007 at 8:37 pm by mahud
Where do I want to be in five years, and what am I willing to do to get there? A few months ago I decided to give myself five years to transform my life and get to the place where I want to be. I didn’t really have any framework or guidelines to help me achieve my five year goal, until I read a post by Aeris at Simple Magics, entitled Journaling Forward.
Six personal journeys leading to my goal
- Write a book
- Meditation
- Blogging
- Devotion
- Web Design
- England
- Write a book
- It has been my desire to write a book on what I am currently referring to as The Cosmic Mysteries, concerning a Divine Being or Cosmic Hero whose death becomes totally identified with some form of paradisaical primordial transgression, that severs the link between the ultimate divine source and the material cosmos, spiraling the universe in chaos and annihilation. Due to the indestructible divine nature of the Cosmic Hero, the universe is rejoined with the divine, the transgression that wrought cosmic death becomes the very vehicle for cosmic rebirth, and according to the Cosmic Hero’s ever-living ever-dying lunar-cosmic nature, the recreated and reordered universe is brought into existence.
- It has been ten years of research in the making, and especially over the past three years I have managed to piece the mythologies together into a coherent whole. I finally began to work on my first chapter a couple of months ago, and have been researching hard, pushing myself to produce something truly book worthy (complete with extensive references and bibliography).
- Meditation
- I began meditating this summer, but I soon feel out of practice. This was mostly due to be unable to find a comfortable sitting position, neck and back ache, and the fact that my body is just waaay to tense all the time. I’m interested in visualization, involving interior journeys where I meet with the gods or spirit guides, and draw information up from my subconscious.
- I also want to become more aware of my actions and those around me, and develop internal calm and compassion. My biggest problem is suffering from social anxiety. I believe that through meditation I will be able to overcome my paralyzing and totally irrational fear of social interaction. It’s pretty deep rooted going back to my childhood, and really started to manifest 17 years ago. Ever since then, my life has been a complete mess. Conquering my SA, would certainly be my biggest achievement, and unless I can pull it off, I’m basically screwed.
- Blogging
- It’s hard work coming up with posts every week, but I really love my blog. I’m sure that over time my blogging style will improve and I’ll be able to increase my audience, writing more comment worthy material. My Blog writing is also intimately connected with my book writing, and I want to use my blog as a way to promote my book.
- Devotion
- I want to devote more time connecting with the divine, through study, prayer, devotion, and thankfulness.
- Web Design
- I love designing websites, but over the past few months, I’ve really let things slide. I want to commit myself to spending some time every week building upon my current design skills, create templates and generate income.
- England
- I miss my family and my country more that I imagined I would. I want be back in England (hopefully well within five years!), and live either in Cornwall or Wiltshire.
The Exercise
This exercise involves visualizing yourself five years from now. As I’m not very skilled with this kind of stuff (see Meditation), it’s going to have form to part of my ongoing meditations, which (If I keep working at it) will improve over time. Anyway here’s the exercise as outlined by Aeris.
Choose a time frame, 5 years, one year, 6 months, one month. Fast forward time, and imagine yourself there already. Look around and be open about what you see, you alone do not dictate the future and surprises may appear in your visualization that you would not have placed there.
What are you doing? Where are you? What do your surroundings look, feel and smell like? What actions were necessary for you to take to get here? Are you pleased with the results of your effort? What have you learned and what obstacles have you overcome? What pleasures have you met along the way? Go into as much detail as you can see, it will help to make the future more concrete and your goal more attainable.
Journaling Forward (Simple Magics)
The Exercise: My visualization
It’s Summer. Shanny and I live in cottage with a beautiful garden full of trees, plants and flowers, and a greenhouse where we grow our own veggies. My family, including my mum, dad, stepmum, my sisters and their kids are spending the weekend with us and we spend the day until evening sitting outside around a table, eating, drinking wine, laughing and chatting about stuff into the evening in a wonderfully relaxed atmosphere.
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